The Lower East Side is one of the most iconic place in all of New York. It was home to all incoming immigrants, it was the birth place of small business to run a community. Due to gentrification many small businesses have had to shut down due to bigger business kicking them out to replace them with expensive condos and restaurants etc.
I'm personally interested in this topic because i live in a poverty stricken are and I see the changes going on all around the neighborhood. I see the little shops that used to go to being torn out and removed to build a bank or some expensive condo that I will never ever be able to afford. I believe certain changes are whats needed for the neighborhood to be better but feel the small business are the heart of the lower east side by just getting rid of it I feel the history is trying to be over written.
Some questions I have are 1. Do the changes to the LES necessary? and Where is the history going to go once its gone?
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